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The hacktoberfest used to be cool, people contributing meaningfully to projects.
Now it’s a rush to who will make the trashiest PR, adding a space here in a readme, adding an unrelated file to your repo…
Once again I won’t be participating, as a maintainer nor as a contributor (didn’t participate last year as I got more and more trashy pr until the 2022 edition when I decided it was enough).
Yea, I agree.
Also what's the point now? At least a couple years ago we got a pretty cool t-shirt. Now we're just getting a digital badge..?
It feels like the original goal, celebrating open source and creating an environment to help newcomers getting started, was lost with the rewards.